[School-of-data] An introduction to SQL - please review

Mon May 26 19:23:38 UTC 2014

Hi Michael,

This looks like a great idea, and I’ve also added some comments to the document.

On a more general level, I wonder whether Google docs is the best vehicle for your document. Are you planning to stick with this, or migrate to something else?  I think you’d end up with a better-looking and more manageable document if you use a framework that separates content from presentation, such as Markdown, AsciiDoc, or reStructuredText. This would provide a better way of consistently displaying code blocks and inline code, and allow you to produce attractive HTML and PDF versions.

http://ben.balter.com/2014/03/31/word-versus-markdown-more-than-mere-semantics/ argues the case well for preferring frameworks like Markdown to WYSIWYG editors.

http://lifehacker.com/this-script-converts-google-documents-to-markdown-for-e-511746113 describes a method for converting an existing Google doc to Markdown.

Although I haven’t used it, https://stackedit.io looks like a possible way of continuing to share your document on Google drive. 

Regards,

Ewan

On 20 May 2014, at 11:06, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:

> Everyone,
> 
> I've recently created an Introduction to SQL for a workshop we had in OSLO
> and would like to turn the introductions into a module for the School of
> Data.
> 
> Please review the materials I created here:
> 
> http://unurl.org/sqosl
> 
> and edit/comment where things are unclear/incorrect.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Michael
> 
> 
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